When Francisco Javier Núñez Rodríguez was born in January 1708, in Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, his father, Francisco Núñez de Rojas y Palacios, was 68 and his mother, Elena Rodríguez de Miranda y Arce, was 64. He married María De Moya Quintero Principe in 1736, in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 18 October 1788, in Guacarí, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, at the age of 80.
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Bogota becomes the capital of the Spanish vice-royalty of Nueva Granada. Nueva Granada also rules Ecuador and Venezuela.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Manuel, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Miguel, Rafael, Pedro, Jorge, Ramon. Portuguese Guilherme, Joaquim, Vasco, Wenceslao.
Spanish (Núñez): patronymic from the medieval personal name Nuño (see Nuno ).
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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